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...Weathermen Arrested At News Conference
...Hoffman. Some 400 Weathermen and hangers-on gathered in Lincoln Park at evening, eager for a confrontation. Fueling a bonfire with park benches, they listened to obscenity-laced speeches until their own "riot squad" of 100 helmeted members arrived. Many of them carried clubs. Then, as a bearded speaker urged them to "get Judge Hoffman," they broke from the park and raced into the streets...
When police, who were on the scene but unobtrusive at first, refused to play, the Weathermen vented their frustration in a senseless rampage. They stopped cars and beat the bewildered passengers, smashed windows and glass doors, and urinated on everything in sight. Some charged head-on into squads of policemen. The cops retaliated with nightsticks, tear gas and, in a few instances, guns. Police arrested 60 that night. Later they obtained warrants and, in a predawn raid on the Covenant United Methodist Church of neighboring Evanston, picked up 43 of the nearly 200 S.D.S. members staying there. Three demonstrators were...
While the Weathermen's demonstrations caused Governor Richard Ogilvie to mobilize 2,600 National Guardsmen, neither the demonstrators nor the efforts of less militant S.D.S. groups succeeded in disrupting the trial. Members of Revolutionary Youth Movement II, one of the more moderate of the S.D.S. factions, found themselves outnumbered when they attempted to "take over" Cook County Criminal Court Building. They had to content themselves with predictable speeches to a generally indifferent audience before heeding police instructions to move on. Even the elements seemed to be against the Weathermen. A downpour washed out another attempt to hold a rally...
...this time she was no longer embarrassed. She thought of the Weathermen arguing with bricks and stones through store windows, and of the shopkeepers who had told the news interviewers, "I don't understand. I oppose the war, so does everyone. Why break my window...